Bio

Jack Saebyok Jung once planned on drawing vampire hunters and mech pilots—but then he stumbled into poetry and never left. A Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he helped bring Yi Sang: Selected Works to life (Wave Books, 2020). He’s also a 2024 NEA Translation Fellow working on Kim Hyesoon’s Lady No for Ecco Press in 2026. Meanwhile, his own poetic sorcery, Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus (Black Square Editions, 2025), proves he’s not afraid of a little word magic.